The Desert

By Stella Story

When the blind man arrived in the city,

He claimed that he had travelled across a desert of living sand.

He told of us shifting dunes and of it moving like water,

He told us of great big monsters created from the winds,

and then destroyed the very same way.

He told us of walls that held him back but set him free.

He told us of dark pits of nothing but cries from below.

He told us of whispers and secrets that were lost in the dust.

When the blind man left the city,

He claimed he would see us again.